New to the list was: re: fruitful typos

>I\'ll quickly introduce myself as I\'ve been on this list for a long time
but haven\'t really posted anything - I\'m Katie, I live on the South coast
of England
>where I work as an analyst/programmer. I\'ve always been fascinated by
inventing languages and was pleased to find I wasn\'t the only one!
>
>Does anyone know of a website where I can find out about basic phonetics
(just to find out what sounds the symbols represent), and also a website
which will explain a lot of the grammatical terms used on the list?

http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/ipahelp.htm
a piece of software that, although a heavy download (about 16 mb), is
extremely nice. Presents IPA tables, and has recorded examples of the
sounds, even nonpulmonic ones (clicks, implosives, ejectives)

http://www.zompist.com/lang18.html#19
the IPA alphabet for ASCII, useful to post on this (and other) lists.

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossary/index.html
extremely huge glossary, which at least I've found useful.